She waited eight years Nevenka Dragojevic from Podgorica to a ruling that would oblige the investor who misled her when purchasing the apartment to return the money she invested. Even after four more attempts, Dragojević was unable to do so, so she Vladan NicovićAccording to the verdict, he still owes 21 thousand euros just for the purchase price of the apartment.
According to unofficial information, Nicović has been living in Serbia for years, where, according to the country's registry of entrepreneurs, he founded the company "Nicović-Consulting" in Belgrade in 2014. According to the same data, the company was removed from the registry in June 2020.
According to the cadastral records of the Montenegrin Real Estate Administration, there are four real estate lists registered with Nicovic, including real estate list 2976, which refers to the disputed building (KP 2921/5, KO Donja Gorica), in which he also sold an apartment to Nevenka Dragojević in 2011.
The now retired woman, a former employee at the Blood Transfusion Institute, told "Vijesti" that despite the rulings of the Basic Court and even the Higher Court, which confirmed the ruling of the Basic Court in Podgorica, she has not been able to reach Nicovic since 2021 to finally return the money she paid him for the purchase of an apartment in a building in the Donja Gorica settlement.
"Vijesti" asked both the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP) of Montenegro and the Ministry of Justice about Nicović's status, however, even after the urgency, these departments did not respond to whether the state was possibly looking for this person.
Nicović was not available on the phone numbers from the Serbian Entrepreneurs' Registry.
Nevenka Dragojević and Vladan Nicović concluded a preliminary contract on November 22, 2011. The contract was drawn up at a notary's office. Mire Bogic.
In 2012, several other individuals filed a complaint against Nicovič, along with Nevenka Dragojević. According to the criminal complaint filed against him in October 2012, Nicovič “falsely presented the facts that he would conclude a contract/annex on the purchase and sale of a two-room apartment, misleading MP, RV and DA into concluding a contract/pre-contract with him on the sale of one and the same apartment, by concluding three separate pre-contracts, at different time intervals”. Thus, according to the complaint, Nicovič concluded a pre-contract with MP at the Basic Court in Podgorica, and the pre-contract with RV was notarized. Slavica Bošnjak, while the contract with DA was certified by notary Mira Bogić.
"And thus he induced these three individuals to pay him a total amount of 71.000 euros as the purchase price, even though he knew that he could not conclude pre-contracts with these three individuals for the purchase of the same apartment," the report states.
It is added that Nicović acted in the same way when it came to other apartments:
"So he sold the same apartment to Nevenka Dragojević, GR and a certain K," the report states, noting that all of these contracts were certified by notary Mira Bogić.
It is alleged that Nicović sold the same apartment to both ZM and MI, as well as SK and H. Š.
A criminal complaint was then filed against Mr. Nicovic on suspicion of committing the criminal offense of fraud under Article 244, paragraph 4 of the Criminal Code. The complaint also included notaries Bogic and Bosnjak, on suspicion of committing the criminal offense of negligent performance of duties under Article 417, paragraph 2 of the Criminal Code.
In the case of Nevenka Dragojević, the Basic Court in Podgorica issued a judgment in November 2019, partially accepting the claim, according to which Nicović is obliged to return to Nevenka the amount of 21.000 euros, paid as the purchase price of the apartment, based on the unjustified acquisition, as well as to compensate her for the damage caused by the conclusion of the disputed preliminary contract in the amount of 146,25 euros, with statutory default interest, starting from September 14, 09 until final repayment, within 2015 days from the date the judgment becomes final.
The Court in Podgorica rejected a possible lawsuit in the part that requested that Nicović oblige himself to pay Nevenka Dragojević an additional amount of just over 14.000 euros as compensation for damages, which refers to the regular interest calculated on the amount of the housing loan that Dragojević took out at that time, as well as the amount of 525 euros, which refers to administrative costs under the loan agreement...
According to the same verdict, Nevenka Dragojević was obliged to pay the notary Mira Bogić the amount of 2.631,75 euros for the costs of the civil proceedings...
The Basic Court's verdict was confirmed by the Podgorica High Court in 2021.
At the time when the complaint was filed against Nicović and the notary, the Disciplinary Commission of the Chamber of Notaries in 2012 temporarily banned, among others, Mira Bogić from working.
As the media reported at the time, the Commission determined that Mira Bogić had acted outside the regulations from October 21, 2011 to October 13, 2012 because she had drawn up 11 notarial deeds for ten apartments and one business space in a building owned by Vladan Nicovic, which only has eight apartments.
Also convicted of abuse of official position
Vladan Nicovic's name was not only mentioned in connection with the sale of apartments in a building in the Donja Gorica neighborhood. Around the same time, he appeared as a partner in a property on Milana Mladenovica Street in the Zabjelo neighborhood. According to media reports, the tenants of that building signed preliminary contracts with Nicovic in 2011 and had them certified in the Basic Court. His business partner at the time Semir Mehovic He claimed that Nicović had practically deceived the tenants, that he was not authorized to sign the preliminary contracts, but that he had done so "exclusively in his own name and for his own account, presenting himself as a seller."
In mid-2013, Nicović was sentenced to four years and four months in prison by the Basic Court for abuse of office, tax and contribution evasion while serving as the bankruptcy administrator of "Gradski saobraćaj". The media wrote at the time that he was tried in absentia in that case because he was on the run and a warrant was issued for him...
According to data from the cadastre, Vladan Nicović in Podgorica, in addition to the disputed property in Donja Gorica, where Nevenka Dragojević bought an apartment, also owns one property in Zabjelo, one in the Tološ settlement, while one property in that settlement is co-owned by Nivocić and another person.
According to data from LN 3378, Nicović has a family residential building of 2794 square meters and a business space of 123 square meters on plot 36. The last change, as stated in the cadastre, was made in 2024, and relates to the building (a three-story building with a basement).
In the same settlement, a family residential building of 125 square meters is registered to Vladan Nicović and another person. The last change to that LN (3305) was made in January of this year.
According to data from LN 6818, in the Zabjelo settlement, Nicović has a residential building with an area of 121 square meters, with another 382 square meters of land. There were also some changes there, which were recorded in September 2024.
According to LN 2976, which records the building in which Nevenka Dragojević bought an apartment, there is also a note from October last year about a change...
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